On 7 Mar 2008 19:23:13 -0500, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Joy Beeson <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I don't propose to tolerate: ...
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>> insistence that "old" means "bad" and "new" means "good"
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>How about vice versa?
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>> The use of "adult" as a euphemism for "dirty".
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>How about "young adult" for someone who isn't yet an adult at all?
>"Young adult" books don't seem to be targeted at people in their 20s.
From what I've seen for nearly of those targeted reader designations
by the publishing industry, with the notable exception of "early
childhood", the target ages should be shifted downward about five
years, more or less.
>> The use of "gender" as a euphemism for "sex".
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>The way I learned it, pronouns have gender, people have sex. But
>nobody else seems to use the words that way. Instead, "gender" seems
>to msotly be used to mean one's sexual self-image.
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>> The use of "the Holocaust" to sanitize, simplify, and trivialize the
>> horrors of the Third Reich.
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>What would you call it? I've also seen the term "Shoah," but I think
>that will be recognized by fewer people.
>
>If there isn't a short name for something, it's harder to talk about.
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